See his photos directly on Flickr for even more.

Here is the second of his photo sets that I promised I’d feature:

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I particularly like Rich’s approach of using found objects, which trigger nostalgia, and positioning and lighting them creatively. Some might describe his work as spooky or weird as well as completely intriguing.

I’m going to feature two sets of KY6R photos, one set today and one set tomorrow – here is the first:

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If you were to survey the Traveling Geeks this morning (Thursday before travel day) you’d be unlikely to hear many of us say “I’m packed and ready to go.” But you would certainly hear all of us say “I’m excited and will really enjoy this trip!”

Yesterday a half dozen of us met up at Greens restaurant in Fort Mason (a decommissioned US Army base in SanFrancisco, used for troop/cargo ship departures during World War II, that was turned over for public use in 1974) to review the mobile internet devices (MIDs) that Intel is providing for the duration of the trip. We’ll be bringing several of these with us, and sharing them around the group, so you’ll get some reports on how well they work.

But, we’re suffering the same stress that I think many bloggers suffer — namely, we are each working our “day job” and at the same time attempting to get everything lined up for the London trip. I have meetings until 1pm on the day I’m traveling, and then I go to the airport around 5pm for an overnight flight — and yes, I sleep on these flights — if it’s dark outside the airplane, then my rule is that I sleep in order to adapt. But today some of us are still getting SIM cards into the Nokia phones and getting BTMobile data provisioned on those phones, and trying to take photos and movies and upload them to Ovi.com (Nokia) and MobyPicture and Flickr, and on and on.

In my case, I notice a change in behavior year by year. Today I surveyed what is ready for packing, and it is allmost all electronic gear and travel information. No clothes are even ready to be packed yet…they’ll be the easy part. What is important is making sure I have the power adapters, plugs, external hard drives, cables, and the three Flip cameras that I will travel with so I can record the Backstage Pass interviews while we’re on the road. I’ve written about being a cyber-nomad, and I definitely fall smack into the middle of that category. Every device I’m carrying has wi-fi, some have 3G data capabilities, and most of them can connect to each other. I am entirely portable and I’ve told my co-workers and clients that although there may be an 8-hour time difference, I will be online most of the time and available unless I’m in meetings.

Speaking of backstage, we now have all of the geeks equipped with Flip UltraHD cameras, and we have two professional cameraguys who will shoot footage – one of these being sponsored by Rackspace Building43.com and the other being provided locally in London. We have agreed to share all of our footage amongst ourselves, so I expect to see some pretty interesting shots, interviews, and to spend many many many hours viewing, logging and then editing, especially upon my return. While we’re on the road we will be busy from 7am to 10pm every day, so there will be little time for editing. Instead, you can expect to see more “live” video and photos on-the-spot and less edited footage.

Keep watching the Traveling Geeks blog for links to photos and video!

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(If you want to know the history, see my original article about embedding Flickr slideshows, which is based on Paul Stamatiou’s experience with embedding Flickr. It no longer works.)

But now you download the flickrslideshow plug-in from Kumara Sastry and enable it. Then you can use a simple plug-in notation to embed your show. You can only embed a Flickr set, which means you have to do a little work on Flickr, but who cares, it looks beautiful! Substitute your own Flickr user ID and your set’s ID number…here’s the way you embed a show in your blog entry.

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1. Download the plug-in and enable it;
2. Put your photos on Flickr and create a set containing the photos you want in the slideshow;
3. Find out your Flicker user ID or the Flickr ID of the person whose photos you want to show (yes you can show anybody’s public photos);
4. Or you can get your user ID and set ID all in one fell swoop at flickr.com when you are logged in -> Flickr / You / Your sets / (then click the set to show it); look at the URL in the browser header; your user_ID is of this form “numbers@Nxx” and the set ID is the long number at the end of the URL;
5. The slideshow will be 500 pixels wide – if your blog is narrower and you’re comfortable hacking simple PHP you can change the width inside the plugin’s PHP file;
6. Put the [] stuff into your blog entry or page as a part of the text in the page – in my case for the Project Happiness Behind the Scenes set it’s what you see below. The photos in this show are mostly by Shmuel Thayer, who accompanied the Project Happiness group to India:

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